about the artists
Athena Petra Tasiopoulos
is a mixed media collage artist and fine art photographer based in central vermont. Originally from Pennsylvania, Athena studied photography at the Art Institute of Philadelphia where she graduated at the top of her class in 2008.
Her work aims to illustrate the beauty, fragility, and truth of the present moment; the meditative poetry that can be found in the quiet and mundane. Tasiopoulos Works with recycled and found vintage papers encased beneath a layer of beeswax, gravitating toward soft, muted colors — warmed and stained by time. Repetitive patterns and primitive marks carved and scraped into the surface of the wax speak to the imperfections of the human hand and the vulnerability of materiality. a meditation on transience, transformation, and the beauty of imperfection, her practice is An embrace of what is — as it is.
Alice Wiese
is a Textile artist from Oakland, California. She received a BFA in Textiles from California College of the Arts in Oakland, Ca in 2012. Much of her inspiration is drawn from architectural patterns such as wrought iron fences, tiles, and brick. Her work is inspired by themes of grief, loss, change, and the process of rebuilding oneself. Her highly repetitive and detailed work is simultaneously chaotic and calming, with currents of order and repetition. Using only white thread, she experiments with the direction of her stitches and how the light reacts to the thread, allowing her pieces to be experienced with different levels of dimension.
In 2018, she received a scholarship to show her work at West Coast Craft and completed a residency at Penland School Of Craft. Her work has been shown in galleries and museums locally and globally. She has been featured in San Francisco Design Week and her work was shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Tokyo.